--- title: "Exciting developments in Ruby parsing" publication: "Ruby Weekly" issue: 658 published_at: "2023-06-15" canonical_url: "https://rubyweekly.com/issues/658" --- Plus RubyConf 2023 news, self-hosted performance monitoring, reducing memory use with jemalloc, and Nicolas Cage doesn't want to attack your Rails app. | #​658 — June 15, 2023 [Read on the Web](https://rubyweekly.com/issues/658) Together with [![Cloud66 logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_250,h_250/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/ofjgwnua55tonrserpbl.png)](https://www.cloud66.com/frameworks/rails/?utm_source=-&utm_medium=-&utm_campaign=RubyWeekly-23-q2-3) Ruby Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/uggvb7mp9u9x6x1rpjbv.jpg)](https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/) [On Rewriting Ruby's Parser](https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-12-rewriting-the-ruby-parser/) — The folks at Shopify have been working on a new parser for CRuby called YARP (Yet Another Ruby Parser). Gone is Bison and its parser generation approach (which doesn’t _really_ suit a language like Ruby) and in comes a flexible, hand written recursive descent parser. This post goes into a _lot_ of detail; the TLDR is YARP will be shipped as a library in Ruby 3.3 later this year. Kevin Newton (Shopify) [Automatically Find Memory Leaks in Native Gems](https://railsatscale.com/2023-06-08-automatically-find-memory-leaks-in-native-gems/) — [ruby_memcheck](https://github.com/Shopify/ruby_memcheck) uses Valgrind Memcheck under the hood to locate leaks in native code and has been used to find memory leaks in Nokogiri, gRPC, libxml2, and others. Peter Zhu [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6bd34055.png)](https://www.cloud66.com/frameworks/rails/?utm_source=-&utm_medium=-&utm_campaign=RubyWeekly-23-q2-3) [Advanced Application Deployment Tool - Build. Deploy. 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Koichi Sasada [TruffleRuby 23.0 Released](https://medium.com/graalvm/whats-new-in-graalvm-languages-161527df3d76#951b) — A fast dynamically compiled JVM-based Ruby implementation that began as a project of the late [Chris Seaton.](https://chrisseaton.com/) It’s great to see a fresh release as part of a big development in Oracle’s GraalVM distribution. TruffleRuby gets faster, adopts Ruby 3.1.3 standards, uses less memory, and has been released under a new 'free' [GFTC license.](https://blogs.oracle.com/cloud-infrastructure/post/graalvm-free-license-oci) More in the [changelog](https://github.com/oracle/truffleruby/releases/tag/graal-23.0.0). Alina Yurenko - 💪 After a [_lot_ of work](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/46594#issuecomment-1588662371), Rails head is now [compatible with Rack 3](https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/46594) and is expected to land in an eventual Rails 7.1 release. If you're curious why it was such a big deal: [here's how Rack 3 differs to Rack 2.](https://github.com/rack/rack/blob/main/UPGRADE-GUIDE.md) - 📅 [RubyConf 2023](https://rubycentral.org/news/rubyconf-2023-san-diego/) is taking place in San Diego this November 13-15. Early bird registration [is open.](https://rubyconf.org/register) - 💰 [The results](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/) of _Stack Overflow_'s annual developer survey are a mixed bag for Ruby, being used by just 6% of the respondents, sitting in the middle of the ['admired and desired' rankings](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-admired-and-desired-programming-scripting-and-markup-languages), _but_ fourth in the list of [top paying techs.](https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-top-paying-technologies-top-paying-technologies) - 🏖 Kevin Murphy posted a [recap of Blue Ridge Ruby 2023](https://kevinjmurphy.com/posts/blue-ridge-ruby-2023-recap/); looks like a fun event. 📕 Tutorials, Articles, and Videos [Deploying a Rails App with MRSK](https://greg.molnar.io/blog/deploying-a-rails-app-with-mrsk/) — [MRSK](https://mrsk.dev/) is a tool DHH unveiled earlier this year as a fresh way to deploy web apps (with Rails as the focus, naturally) using containers and Traefik to reverse proxy incoming requests. 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